Should one cry or laugh at Mahathir’s latest and most preposterous racist fulminations about Chinese wanting to oust political power of Malays and domiante Malaysian politics?
Should one cry or laugh at Dr. Mahathir Mohamad’s latest racist fulminations, making the preposterous claim that the 13th General Election is proof that the Chinese in Malaysia are out to oust the political power of the Malays and to dominate Malaysian politics?
Cry because a former Prime Minister could be so racist, reckless and irresponsible as to continue to try to set the Malays against the Chinese, outdoing his preposterous claim during the 13th General Elections that I was contesting in Gelang Patah to create a “racial confrontation” and that I was inciting the Chinese to hate the Malays.
There was not an ounce of truth in Mahathir’s allegations, but what is significant is that Mahathir’s allegations failed to make any impression on the voters, particularly the Malay voters, as I could not have won Gelang Patah with a majority of over 14,000 votes without the support of the Malay voters.
Was Mahathir’s failure to make an impact on the 13GE with his racist fulminations the reason why he has upped the ante to make even more racist and most preposterous fulminations that the Chinese in Malaysia are out to oust the political power of the Malays so as to dominate Malaysian politics?
Laugh that a former Prime Minister could go to such desperate lengths because his racist message is facing a diminishing market among the Malays that he had to concoct such wild lies that the Chinese in Malaysia are out to oust the political power of the Malays so as to dominate Malaysian politics!
Does Mahathir really believe his own allegations? Does Mahathir expect any sane and rational Malaysian, regardless of race, to believe in his latest racist fulminations that the Chinese are out oust the political power of the Malays and to dominate Malaysian politics
– which are complete figments of his imagination like his earlier wild allegations that I contested in Gelang Patah to create a racial confrontation and to incite Chinese to hate the Malays?
The most dismaying development in Malaysian politics is the reckless racist fulminations of Mahathir, but there is no need for Malaysians to despair. It is said that “every cloud has a silver lining” and the silver lining is that Mahathir is facing a diminishing market for his racist fulminations which will foil his attempt to pit the Malays against the Chinese.
Although Mahathir has repudiated his Vision 2020 and a Bangsa Malaysia, and Datuk Seri Najib Razak has yet to prove that he is serious and sincere about 1Malaysia, the 13GE has shown that more and more Malaysians, regardless of race, religion or region, are united by a common Malaysian Dream to want a Malaysia which transcendsa the politics of race, corruption, cronyism, abuses of power and all forms of injustices to take the country towards a new tomorrow where all Malaysians can hold their heads high as proud citizens of a Malaysian nation where there is freedom, justice, good governance, prosperity for all Malaysians where the politics of race is a nightmare of the past.